Opinion: The Truth about Charters

Assistant features editor David Feith on a New York Times editorial that disputes charter schools' effectiveness. Photo: Getty Images

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... I ... to Opinion Journal why Mary Kissel new study on charter schools this out ... this criticism all of these kinds of schools based on fact or fiction the assistant features editor David Feith ... editor of teaching America's here ... David what is this new study out of a Greek Stanford ... and what are they trying to achieve ... from investing basically shows ... it looks to watch charter schools and their ... effect on student performance over several years and the big headline ... is that schools that start week ... just a week according to Sanford schools the charter schools and start strong tend to stay strong ... for you say that there are some problems with these numbers want what their problem with the numbers are probably the numbers are received from the door the numbers are received ... is that a lot of folks are using this as a suggestion that ... all charter schools either directly or somehow implicitly our ... are no good answer when they propose new charter laws they should be opposed to things like that ... that makes no sense at all because charter schools are inherently self correcting ... they are up for reauthorization every few years ... and that's a very valuable check on their quality societies like this ... can be very valuable in pointing to was where the cost of the ID tweaks to their authorization process and accountability process but to suggest that because we charters just a week for example ... all students ought to be thrown back into the traditional public school system ... where there's nothing like the self correcting mechanisms that exist in Charters ... is a really odd and and harmful to non sequitur what's the thing York Times editorials conclusion and our history here quickly ... states in a hurry to expand charter school should proceed carefully the evidence of success is not all that you know when you say that it's it's just not so and the better evidence is even better for charter schools ... the Stanford report like another very prominent Stanford report a few years ago ... has this crazy I'm virtual twin process with the Compare charter school students to have ... invented virtual student in the other public schools ... that's a far less rigorous method then I would call the gold standard in this kind of research which is comparing students who apply for charter school lotteries and didn't make it in ... with those whom fighting to get in and the studies consistently show charters in urban